1. These are the portions which the Israelites received as heritage in the land of Canaan. Eleazar the priest, Joshua, son of Nun, and the heads of families in the tribes of the Israelites determined
2. their heritage by lot, as the Lord had commanded through Moses concerning the remaining nine and a half tribes.
3. To two and a half tribes Moses had already given a heritage beyond the Jordan; to the Levites he had given no heritage among them:
4. the descendants of Joseph formed two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. But the Levites were given no share of the land except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for the herds and flocks.
5. As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did: they apportioned the land.
6. When the Judahites approached Joshua in Gilgal, the Kenizzite Caleb, son of Jephunneh, said to him: “You know the word the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, concerning you and concerning me in Kadesh-barnea.